by Jeffrey P. Snider
Alhambra Partners
In yet another data point that identifies depression rather than a Great Recession, the Wall Street Journal reported last week what most people outside the economics profession had realized a long time ago. Janet Yellen likes to say that the housing market is recovering, highlighting the economic sector as one of the few bright spots left. The FOMC regularly and officially makes mention of it, largely for the same reason.
As with everything else in this economy, however, that something is not getting worse does not immediately indicate that it is getting better. The housing market has been out of its crash for five years, but that is not at all the same as a housing recovery.